Raptorpat

I've only moved myself/with family. Highly curious whether you decide the trade-off of not having to do it but having to trust beefy guys to not damage your stuff is worth it.

I'm looking from my PC and I can definitely see it now. I thought there was a smudge on my screen but you're right. Weird.

sorry @rpgamer I totally missed this, but I am not sure what in the image you're pointing out

Seems like there was a bit of a settlement last week https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/27/desantis-disney-lawsuit-settlement-tourism/

happeaster

here it is it was definitely there all along https://unevenedge.com/topic/63127-asmb-nostalgia-and-shout-outs-thread/

I thought we had a central thread somewhere but maybe not so here it is. For those that missed the 20th Anniversary Reunion event circa 2023 or just want those nostalgia vibes to keep on going, let's use this as a mega thread for all things retro ASMB. Feel free to drop in, say a word, shout out you friends (feel free to tag if not for douchy purposes), ask a question, bask in the glow, or whatever else you want!

Better late than never! I think we have a general ASMB nostalgia thread in this folder, or if we don't we probably should.

shouldn't good friday be called baaaad friday

cool

Forget pounds or grams, we need to use units of weight based on humpback whales for everything.

Pro choice Dem wins a red-leaning toss-up seat in Alabama statehouse. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/politics/alabama-special-election-democrat-reproductive-rights/index.html

no all i saw was it lost power

what

I looked briefly at Stellaris dlc and resident evil 4 but I also did not buy anything

And the first ten steps were always just how to get out of your driveway and to the highway, step 11 saying which exit to get off was the first step that mattered.

Happy birthday @BloodHawk1991!

I'm not quite sure the context here but happy birthday @OwlChemist81!

Ken Buck signed the Democrats' Ukraine Aid discharge petition before his resignation took effect, and his signature counts until his replacement is elected.

because they hate it

I amend my above post by subtracting one more repub

With Buck gone after today, the GOP has like a two seat majority. The next special election is Tim Kennedy (D) from NY at the end of April, with two GOP seats to be filled later in May and June. So the GOP conference isn't going to swiftly replace him. I'd expect either another months-long shitshows, or Johnson cuts a deal with them Dems to get us through the year. Longer shot would be a Dem-controlled House.

happy birthday @thee2TONfist and @UncomfortableGoatee your mum must have been so proud to have twins

In 2019, NYS pass the farmworker fair labor practices bill or whatever it is called after 30 years of attempts going nowhere. The farmers are still fighting the rollout, claiming that requiring farmer workers be paid minimum wage and overtime etc. will drive up costs and put them out of business. I don't doubt that it will drive up costs, but at the same time, if agricultural output costs what it does because farmworker are paid substandard wages to work 7-day weeks with no time off etc., that just says to me that we've been paying a discount on our food that subsidized by the laborers themselves. Which is really, genuinely unjust. Even moreso when many of these workers are villainized as "illegals" despite being the only ones willing to do the work for that pay. So then it begs the question - what is the real cost of food? How much more is it really worth, and how many more people would be unable to afford the true cost? And you can work that up the supply chain. How much more would restaurant food cost if you were charged the real cost of the food and restaurant workers weren't also paid a sub-minimum wage subsidized by tips? If every worker through the process were paid what they're worth, food prices would shoot up and I don't think the added economic activity created by raising those wages and benefits would cancel it out. It would really force us to reevaluate our economic relationship to food and how we make it affordable across the economic spectrum. But as long as farmworkers are treated as second class - like in our own labor laws, we continue to put that conversation off.

I think there is definitely room out there for a conversion about the "real" cost of food to the extent that food prices are artificially low due to the underpayment of labor, from the farm to the restaurant.